socalTECH

OCTOBER 2, 2012

We thought it might be interesting to talk with one of the fund's managing directors, Jeb Spencer about the fund's success in technology investments, plus how it managed to raise another fund in this kind of environment, plus its unique goal of getting companies to an acquisition--and not an IPO.

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Acquisition Software Review Technical Review Equity 168

Berkonomics

MAY 27, 2021

They protect the company by overseeing the expenditure of company money for expansion, acquisitions, purchases of large assets, hiring of senior management and more. The usual size of a board is five, but legally the number in most states is equal to the number of shareholders up to a maximum of three board members required by law.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 30, 2012

Earlier this week, Los Angeles-based Wittlebee (www.wittlebee.com) announced the acquisition of its own, clothing company--Cottonseed Clothing Company--as it continues to build out its subscription, children's clothing service. For example, if they're a diva, or they're sporty, it matches that personality. How did it come about?

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

Our new customer acquisition has grown and our costs have plummeted. We are actually getting paid now to obtain customers, so our customer acquisition costs are now negative. A negative customer acquisition cost! I’m going to be using that as an example for a long time! Just found the title of my post.

Acquisition 170

Acquisition Custom Customer Ideas 170

Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 13, 2014

They protect the company by overseeing the expenditure of company money for expansion, acquisitions, purchases of large assets, hiring of senior management and more. The usual size of a board is five, but legally the number in most states is equal to the number of shareholders up to a maximum of three board members required by law.

Resource 222

Resource Acquisition Class Help 222

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

I found their five phases of the process to be compelling, based on my own years of experience mentoring startups: Nail the pain. For example, when you think about distribution channels, revenue streams, or the relationship with the customer, ask customers what they expect.

Technical Review 143

Technical Review Custom Customer Entrepreneur 143

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 26, 2020

Thus I offer the following outline for how to organize and present your business plan, with specific examples: Start with outlining the customer problem, and your solution. For example, “We just patented a new battery technology that will cut your smartphone charge time and cost in half.” Use non-fuzzy terms to quantify customer value.

Product 169

Product Summary Startup Examples 169

Berkonomics

OCTOBER 13, 2016

Yet, there are constant examples of new entrants into a niche that grow, prosper and sometimes even become dominant. There’s an example of avoiding the encounter and losing the lead position when an opportunity to compete surfaces unexpectedly. At least that is the conventional wisdom. So when do we know which course to take?

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 13, 2020

For example, every investor I know can tell you about meeting a passionate entrepreneur who is pitching a great technology innovation, but has not done the financial homework on making it a good business. Five-year projections should show at least a 10 percent penetration of the market segment you target, but not more than 50 percent.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 27, 2018

If you measure success by exits, the Ring acquisition by Amazon and Cylance acquisition by Blackberry, each for $1 billion, were among the biggest stories of 2018. Given SVBs market position, that is great news. But its even better news for the regional SoCal innovation ecosystem. The answer is profit.

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Southern California SoCal Culver City Venture Capital 133

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 17, 2023

For example, if you have a proven product, real revenue, a big potential market, and are ready to scale up the business, every investor will be interested. Luckily, not all investors are looking for the same thing, so it pays to know what type of investors are most interested in what your startup brings to the table.

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Funding Startup Ideas Equity 125

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 6, 2021

For example, Mark McClain, cofounder and CEO of SailPoint Technologies , created an employee growth culture resulting in growth of forty percent a year, with more than $100 million in revenues. That means you need to focus early on where you need to be in five years, and focus on strategic planning on a regular basis.

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Berkonomics

JANUARY 26, 2017

The most striking example was the one hundred–million–dollar purchase of one of my companies by a New York private equity investor using only five million of its cash. Offering too little in an acquisition to satisfy the seller? But I learned it again and again in my various business lives.

Pricing 120

Pricing Sales Tool Equity 120

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 22, 2020

For example, if you have a proven product, real revenue, a big potential market, and are ready to scale up the business, every investor will be interested. Luckily, not all investors are looking for the same thing, so it pays to know what type of investors are most interested in what your startup brings to the table.

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Startup Ideas Equity Invest 148

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 6, 2016

But in my experience as a startup advisor, too many entrepreneurs get stuck there, and always find excuses for not really exploring mergers, acquisitions, partnerships, and alliance alternatives. For example, at any given moment in your business, you may be limited by development, marketing, or sales. Think outside the box.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

I will use some examples from Parachute and some other portfolio companies to give you examples from our experiences of watching successful brands grow. If you go to Parachute Home’s Website you find 150 main products to choose from in five key categories: bedding, bath, table, decor & baby. Get Physical!

Product 296

Product Course Custom Customer 296

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 15, 2019

I found their five phases of the process to be compelling, based on my own years of experience mentoring startups: Nail the pain. For example, when you think about distribution channels, revenue streams, or the relationship with the customer, ask customers what they expect.

Startup 98

Startup Technical Review Custom Customer 98

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 13, 2015

This integration, or fusion with traditional marketing, is discussed in detail, with examples, in “ The Fusion Marketing Bible ,” by Lon Safko, author of bestseller “ The Social Media Bible.” I like his outline of five steps to the proper utilization of integrated media as follows: Analyze your existing media.

Social Media 108

Social Media Media Marketing Resource 108

socalTECH

MAY 16, 2019

Since then, we've been growing pretty well, and now have five or six employees now, in the early, early startup stage. Even the example of Zoom, which is a great kick-butt company that has really grown quickly, in six to eight years, you have to think about all that experience the CEO brought in from WebEx.

Sales 133

Sales Startup Software Marketing 133

SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

For your first key hires, three, five, maybe as much as ten, you will probably not be able to use any kind of formula. For example, suppose you're just two founders and you want to hire an additional hacker who's so good you feel he'll increase the average outcome of the whole company by 20%. Let's run through an example.

Equity 391

Equity CTO Hire Startup Examples 391

Xconomy

AUGUST 8, 2016

Qualcomm had worked to develop its Vuforia technology for at least five years before a maturing smartphone market and new economic realities led to the sale. Of course, as Xconomy noted last year , there also were precious few examples of mobile games or ads that became a runaway success because of the way they used augmented technology.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 26, 2010

The other key business we are in is the aftermarket and registrar business, through SnapNames and Moniker, two acquisition we made. In commercial real estate, three to five percent of commercial real estate is traded every year, but in the domain space it's less than a half of a percent. It's now about five times as big as it was.

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Oversee.net Yahoo Startup Google 207

socalTECH

AUGUST 10, 2020

We generate leads for their businesses, and if you imagine you might own five vehicles, you don't want them sitting around all day on a Wednesday. That's appealing to them, and that distribution and acquisition model has worked very well for us. Try booking a charter busit's pretty much impossible without calling five places.

SaaS 113

SaaS Startup Tool Doc 113

TechCrunch LA

APRIL 16, 2019

Additionally, Bartasi says they are in the process of closing an acquisition in Los Angeles that will result in Kindbody’s first permanent clinic in the city. “The technology that allows for egg-freezing has only been widely used in the last five to six years,” Bartasi explained.

Mobile 167

Mobile Pricing Social Network Los Angeles 167

socalTECH

JANUARY 9, 2014

We wanted to have a five second, quick and easy way for consumers to find out who has the best deals, and provide more information and power to consumers so they can make important choices, and ultimately spend their money more wisely and find more deals and discounts. A specific example of that is Vistaprint.

Internet Brands 257

Internet Brands Content Startup Sites 257

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 5, 2015

I challenge any entrepreneur, for example, to define the difference between "seed-stage" and "early-stage" financing. A new VC seed market has been emerging, especially over the past five years: It usually appears in the form of a prototypical seed round of $1 million to $1.5 A “genesis” venture capital round.

Funding 104

Funding Venture Capital Startup Seed Funding 104

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 1, 2013

This integration, or fusion with traditional marketing, is discussed in detail, with examples, in “ The Fusion Marketing Bible ,” the most recent book by Lon Safko, author of bestseller “ The Social Media Bible.” I like his outline of five steps to the proper utilization of integrated media as follows: Analyze your existing media.

Social Media 103

Social Media Media Marketing Startup 103

socalTECH

MARCH 8, 2013

We now have seven companies, and have our own venture fund as well, and we'll be doing four or five for the next few years. For example, Cirro is a data federation engine, which links big data with corporate data in a very effective eway. Predixion is a great example of that. It's been great.

Incubator 208

Incubator Startup CTO Hire Ideas 208

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 23, 2017

This integration, or convergence with traditional marketing, is discussed in detail, with examples, in “ The Fusion Marketing Bible ,” by Lon Safko, author of the classic bestseller “ The Social Media Bible.” I like his outline of five steps to the proper utilization of integrated media as follows: Analyze your existing media.

Media 59

Media Marketing Social Media Resource 59

Jason Nazar

MAY 1, 2016

Customer Acquisition Cost / Cost Per Acquisition . The customer acquisition cost or cost per acquisition is the basic marketing cost to acquire a customer. For example, if it costs $1,000 on Google paid search to get 500 people to visit your site and five of those people purchase an item, your CAC is $200 ($1,000/5).

Marketing 40

Marketing CPC Metrics .Net 40

socalTECH

JUNE 3, 2013

For example, they can''t monetize the accelerated depreciation available to businesses in the U.S. From an investment perspective, they have been very, very few defaults on residential leases over the past five years. Let me give you an example. But, they cannot monetize all of the federal tax credits for a solar system.

Equity 234

Equity Invest Marketing Product 234

Jason Nazar

NOVEMBER 1, 2015

Customer Acquisition Cost / Cost Per Acquisition . The customer acquisition cost or cost per acquisition is the basic marketing cost to acquire a customer. For example, if it costs $1,000 on Google paid search to get 500 people to visit your site and five of those people purchase an item, your CAC is $200 ($1,000/5).

Marketing 40

Marketing CPC Metrics .Net 40

socalTECH

JUNE 9, 2014

If you look at the numbers from Comscore, we are doing about half the number of uniques that Maker is doing, but we''re doing it with only five channels, versus their 50 thousands channels. A good example of that is Hero Cat, which blew up in two days to million and millions of views. It''s much more about quality, than quantity.

Media 235

Media Content Startup IP 235

InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 20, 2010

October” because of his consistent ability to hit home runs during clutch situations in playoff and World Series games, which contributed to his teams winning five Championships. As such, he played for five different teams during his career. Reggie earned the nickname “Mr. Matching Maintenance With Productivity. Cal Ripkin, Jr.

Statistics 212

Statistics Press Product Startup 212

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 23, 2012

This integration, or fusion with traditional marketing, is discussed in detail, with examples, in “ The Fusion Marketing Bible ,” a recent book by Lon Safko, author of bestseller “ The Social Media Bible.” He outlines five steps to the proper utilization of integrated media as follows: Analyze your existing media.

Media 92

Media Social Media Marketing Resource 92

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 18, 2014

I found their five phases of the process to be compelling, based on my own years of experience mentoring startups: Nail the pain. For example, when you think about distribution channels, revenue streams, or the relationship with the customer, ask customers what they expect.

Entrepreneur 113

Entrepreneur Startup Technical Review Custom 113

socalTECH

MARCH 1, 2012

For example, if you as a consumer shop at a place, when you're done with your transaction, you can take a picture of your receipt, and start earning "punches" on Punchard at the places you shop. in 2009, and through that process I learned a lot about local businesses, and about customer acquisition pain points.

Southern California 245

Southern California Idealab Startup Custom 245